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How to Create a CI/CD Pipeline for Your PCB Design At Altium Live 2019 (San Diego), I gave a talk with David Haboud on software development techniques for PCB design. This talk demonstrated what a Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline would look like within a DevOps environment. In that talk I used the Atlassian tool suite (Jira, Bitbucket, and Bamboo) to create my DevOps flow for PCB design. In this article, I am going to demonstrate and provide a full CI/CD project example Read Article

An Introduction to NFC I used to work in a research lab that worked primarily with RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) and NFC (Near Field Communication) technology, particularly for the agriculture industry and cattle identification. These were very specialised fields. However, the lab also worked on projects which involved retail and various other applications for NFC. It’s an amazing technology that you might be using every day without thinking about it - from Read Article

Finding a Cure for COVID-19 with MKS Instruments and Altium 365 As the world grapples with the worst pandemic in over a century, the demands upon the biotech industry have never been more immediate. With such an urgent need for the development of treatments for COVID-19, MKS Instruments has been feeling the heat along with the major industries they support. For decades, MKS Instruments have been designing and developing the most widely used mass spectrometers for the life sciences industry, as well as a Read Article

OnTrack Newsletter: AltiumLive Virtual Summit, OSV, Brain Food - July 2020 OnTrack Newsletter July 2020 VOL. 4 No 1 AltiumLive 2020 goes “Virtual” Like most events in 2020, Altium is transitioning our annual flagship conference, AltiumLive, to an online experience this year. We will host our North American event from October 6-8, and our European event from October 20-22, 2020. And the best part is...it’s free to attend! Read Article Watch Video Brain Food Technical Articles to Keep You Sharp How to Design Your PCB Test Read Article

DesignCon 2020’s ‘Engineer of the Year’ Talks Power Integrity, Picosatellites, and Simulation Tools Istvan Novak, Principal Signal and Power Integrity Engineer for Samtec Inc. and winner of the DesignCon 2020 Engineer of the Year Award joins the OnTrack podcast to talk about picosatellites, simulation tools, and the rising importance of power integrity. Listen to the Podcast: Download this episode (right click and save) Watch the video: {"preview_thumbnail":"/sites/default/files/styles/video_embed_wysiwyg_preview/public/video_thumbnails/dUBig Read Article

The “Mini Monkey” Board – Using the LPC55S69 in the VFBGA98 Package PCB File Viewer by Altium For as long as I can remember, I have been a microcontroller addict. In 2020 there is no shortage of component selection. We are also at an interesting period where MCUs can tackle complicated tasks that we may have chosen a high-end applications processor for. Quite a bit of my career has been focused on doing really awesome things in the MCU space as you get a great balance of cost, design control, and simplicity. I am Read Article

AltiumLive 2020 goes “Virtual” Like most events in 2020, Altium is transitioning our annual flagship conference, AltiumLive, to an online experience this year. We will host our North American event from October 6-8, and our European event from October 20-22, 2020. And the best part is...it’s free to attend! While nothing can duplicate the experience of a live event or being physically together, we are busy planning ways to deliver our unique AltiumLive experience in the first Read Article

Rocketing into the Future with Apollo Fusion and Altium Space is a uniquely punishing environment, from extreme temperatures to high levels of radiation. Anything designed to operate in space has to be more than just tough—it has to be virtually indestructible. Apollo Fusion, a Bay Area startup, develops propulsion systems for satellites that provide global connectivity. Their Power Processing Units (PPUs) are built with the uniquely harsh environment in mind, rugged and radiation-tolerant for ongoing Read Article

To Say Thank You to All Our Users We've Launched a Refer-a-Friend Program As some of our users might have noticed, we were running a survey on the Altium Designer home page (available in Altium Designer 20 and up) for a few months. The survey asked Altium Designer users, "How likely are you to recommend Altium Designer to friends and colleagues?" (with ten meaning extremely likely). The vast majority of users responded with 9 and 10. We were quite overwhelmed with this positive feedback. Thank you to all who Read Article

23:57 6 Steps to Master Project Storage Access to your design files is critical for the success of your design process. Whether you are working with internal Watch Video

29:01 Editing Your PCB Geometry with MCAD Tools You need to define your PCB geometry in the context of your enclosure. If your board cannot physically be assembled Watch Video

How Calumet Electronics Joined the Fight Against COVID-19 With Altium 365 The town of Calumet, with a population of barely seven-hundred, was once the booming epicenter of Michigan’s upper peninsula mining industry. When the industry began to fail, unemployment skyrocketed, and the townspeople sought local solutions for creating jobs that could sustain the town’s families. Rob Cooke, Director of Engineering Services at Calumet Electronics Corp, joins the OnTrack podcast to discuss the Open Source Ventilator project Read Article

OnTrack Newsletter: Microvia Reliability, Ben Jordan Whiteboard, Tech Articles - June 2020 OnTrack Newsletter June 2020 VOL. 3 No 13 Microvia Reliability in Ultra-High Density Interconnect Designs. Earlier this year, while attending the IPC Apex Expo in San Diego, we met with Jim Brown of GreenSource Fabrication. He shared with us how the GreenSource team has been on the frontlines of facing down the highly problematic and pervasive issue of microvia reliability. Through their involvement with tier one companies, IPC, and building out Read Article

How to Approach Microvia Reliability Issues With Jim Brown of GreenSource Many people struggle with microvia reliability issues. Listen to Jim Brown discuss how GreenSource has handled many of these problems allowing them to make great strides! Listen to the Podcast: Download this episode (right click and save) Watch the video: {"preview_thumbnail":"/sites/default/files/styles/video_embed_wysiwyg_preview/public/video_thumbnails/TdakhkfOlVk.jpg?itok=jCRmTeix","video_url":"https://youtu.be/TdakhkfOlVk","settings":{ Read Article

Why Altium Designer 20 is Different Altium Designer 20 is a culmination of three initiatives that elevate it to an entirely new level. Here is what makes it so special. Download PDF

22:14 8 Reasons to Store Your Components in Altium 365 Working with local libraries seems like a simple solution, but we often don’t take into account the added time spent Watch Video

From Idea to Orbit with Altium, TE Connectivity, and Astranis Internet connectivity is so central to everyday life that it is easy to assume that everyone, everywhere is online. From eCommerce and social media to streaming video, our quality of life has become inextricably linked with our bandwidth capabilities. The coronavirus pandemic of 2020 made our reliance on internet technology even more salient. Yet, throughout the world internet coverage is unreliable. In many areas, including more rural parts of Read Article